{"id":1655,"date":"2017-11-28T13:27:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2017-11-28T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:27:50","slug":"survey-most-americans-support-postsecondary-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/survey-most-americans-support-postsecondary-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Most Americans Support Postsecondary Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1660\" style=\"width: 849px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/graduations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1660\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/graduations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/graduations.jpg 849w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/graduations-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/graduations-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most Americans believe postsecondary education remains a valuable commodity for today\u2019s young people, according to results from a new national survey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of Americans (86 percent) feel that higher education after high school enhances job prospects,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.civisanalytics.com\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Civis_Analytics_Higher_Education_Polling_Memo.pdf\">a new report from Civis Analytics<\/a>. \u201cMost (89 percent) also think high school students should pursue an education program after graduation from high school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More than 5,600 Americans were polled for the report.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted in September and August, offers evidence that \u201cattacking or dismissing higher education isn\u2019t a path to political wins,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/third-way\/americans-agree-higher-education-is-crucial-b5be4a4f830b\">an analysis<\/a> of the results published by Third Way \u2014 a centralist think tank based in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost Americans believe (postsecondary education) matters more than ever and that students should pursue it&#8230;&#8221; the blog post notes. \u201cIt\u2019s an important reminder that regardless of the headlines on opinion pages or overreactions of political pundits, the need for education beyond high school still maintains broad popularity in our country \u200a\u2014\u200a and that\u2019s not likely to change anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at <a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans believe postsecondary education remains a valuable commodity for today\u2019s young people, according to results from a new national survey. \u201cThe vast majority of Americans (86 percent) feel that higher education after high school enhances job prospects,\u201d according to a new report from Civis Analytics. \u201cMost (89 percent) also think high school students should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/survey-most-americans-support-postsecondary-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Survey: Most Americans Support Postsecondary Education<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-value-of-college"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-qH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}